I'm about to cross my timeline in the biggest way possible.

Evening all. If your reading this from anywhere other than the UK, then you are probably not aware that today is a public holiday here. Or a bank holiday as we call them, for reasons that still remain stubbornly opaque to me (actually, if anyone knows the answer to this, could they leave me a comment. Cheers). And on this bank holiday, as is traditional, the rain god has decided to catch up on all that flexi-time he owes and pull a double shift, which has given me an opportunity to have a bit of a mull today on The Time War (or The Last Great Time War if we're being exact). I've been having a think about this for over a week now after finishing Engines of War, which I really enjoyed, and started a little more reading vis-a-vis The Time War.

Now, it's an obvious point to make (and yes, I know I'm still making it) but after the events of Day of the Doctor, the Time War was always going to become ripe for plunder. And I'll be the first to admit that I am an absolute sucker for the mythological mists clearing and getting a view of events that were previously a mystery. Therein lies a problem for me. We all know that Gallifrey was subject, in storytelling terms, to a law of diminishing returns. My heart says MORE, but my old grey head, that has lived through cancellation gets very, very wary at the thought of the series having a touchstone to return to again and again.

Now, I don't think this will happen, but you never know. The point of all this though, is too ask a question. Russell made it quite clear that he believed that the events of Genesis of the Daleks was the Timelords firing their first shot across the Daleks bows and it's got me wondering if their are any other classic stories that could be looked at through the filter of the Time War and indeed if their events were influenced by the Time War reaching backwards and shaping events. Online histories of the War include the events in classic series Dalek stories, so why not others? I'm intrigued to hear any repiles you have.

Goodnight

Tony